I'm not normally a Today Tonight fan (far from it) but was pleasantly surprised to see a segment on Linda Cockburn (and family) and their latest project in Tasmania. If you haven't heard of Linda, she is the author of Living the Good Life: How One Family Changed Their World from Their Own Backyard - a great book that was partially responsible for inspiring me to get back into gardening.
Linda, Trev and Caleb have now left Gympie and joined the "march south" to Tasmania to embark on a bigger project that involves building a straw bale house amongst other things. You can read all about it on their website - I don't believe there are plans for a book on this on.
For those that missed the segment - I pulled it off my Tivo and youtubed it here (come and get me Today Tonight!):
As to my own garden, it's been a bit of a quiet year for planting this year as I have been concentrating on getting the Edge Guild right on my Mandala (taken from another Linda's book - The Permaculture Home Garden). Pumpkins, Tomatoes (not intentional - the chooks planted them from their poo!), some new fruit trees and another passionfruit are the only edibles. One good thing was that I have had a truly MASSIVE crop of pumpkins, due to me planting everywhere just before the big rain, and have been giving them to everyone I know. They have been so yummy that this alone has inspired a few people to think outside the square of the Supermarket.
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